McKinley and the solid south

[Alcon]

Philip, this is the exact reason that Democrats still have huge majorities in state governments of some of the deepest southern states. It's all about populism - the Republicans can, however, since the state is so used to electing federal representatives from the GOP, fairly easily get away with nominating full-fledged conservatives.

[Alcon]

Um, no. Part of the modern southern strategy is emphasizing tax cuts.

So how exactly do you explain heavily populist, Democratically-controlled state senates? Magic?